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The origins and implications of late prehistoric plant husbandry in northern Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gary W. Crawford  and
Hiroto Takamiya
Gary W. Crawford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hiroto Takamiya
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Introduction

Processes of acculturation and assimilation in contact situations have been the subject of considerable interest to North American and Japanese prehistorians alike. In the latter case, research has emphasized the transition, beginning about 1000 BC, to the wet-rice-focussed Yayoi (Akazawa 1981, 1986) (see TABLE1 for plant nomenclature used in this paper). The spread of agriculture to northeastern Japan is usually viewed as a northeastward progression of a frmtier that reached northern Tohoku by the Middle Yayoi (FIGURES 1 & 2). However, the situation is more complex than this, in our view, and involves a spatial and cultural dichotomy between Hokkaido and northern Tohoku on the one hand and southern Tohokusouthwestern Japan on the other. Furthermore, we interpret Ainu culture (as distinct from the Ainu biological population) of Hokkaido and Sakhalin to be an outcome of a long period of social interaction along this boundary.

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 245 , December 1990 , pp. 889 - 911
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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